Can Self-Employed Tutors for My Company Also Volunteer within my Company?

BueTAnderbeest

Hi

This is my first post. How are you all? Hopefully, someone can help me.

I want to start a for-profit tutoring business hiring self-employed tutors. I want my company to help a wide range of students, including disadvantaged students who cannot afford tuition. 
Would it be against the law to state in my job description that we want to reach a large number of students and that tutors will have the opportunity to help disadvantaged students by offering them up to a 100% discount (essentially volunteering) for any number of lessons that the tutor decides?

Thank you so much, guys!

Emmia

I think putting the "volunteering" in the advert makes it look like a requirement/ expectation of the job (people can't decline) and so you're likely to put potential tutors off.

kimwp

Not sure legalities of putting it in a job advert, but how are you going to decide who gets free tutoring?  Are pupils going to be aware that the tutors might provide their services for free and for however many tutorials that the tutor decides on so might ask them directly? In my experience, structure and limits are required around this kind of thing. Will you be providing the digital platform, safeguarding checks etc?

The ability to work for nothing seems a bit irrelevant to an applicant really, particularly given there are many charities that provide tutoring for the disadvantaged. 

BueTAnderbeest

Emmia said:

I think putting the "volunteering" in the advert makes it look like a requirement/ expectation of the job (people can't decline) and so you're likely to put potential tutors off.

Thanks for your reply... no, I wouldn't put it in the ad, that was just for you guys.

BueTAnderbeest

kimwp said:

Not sure legalities of putting it in a job advert, but how are you going to decide who gets free tutoring?  Are pupils going to be aware that the tutors might provide their services for free and for however many tutorials that the tutor decides on so might ask them directly? In my experience, structure and limits are required around this kind of thing. Will you be providing the digital platform, safeguarding checks etc?

The ability to work for nothing seems a bit irrelevant to an applicant really, particularly given there are many charities that provide tutoring for the disadvantaged. 

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I will be providing the platform and will require a DBS. Your other questions are things to think about.

True, there are charities that offer this, hmmm, I just wanted to offer the same, so that anyone in the country
(perhaps where these charities do not work) would have the opportunity to learn.
Maybe I won't do it after all. It's probably too complicated...

Thanks